Asymmetric Biotic Interactions Cannot Be Inferred Without Accounting for Priority Effects

• Published in: Ecology letters Vol. 27; no. 9; pp. e14509 - n/a
• Main Authors: Powell‐Romero, Francisca, Wells, Konstans, Clark, Nicholas J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2024
• Subjects: asymmetric interactions; biotic interactions; Community ecology; Computer applications; Computer Simulation; Ecological effects; Ecosystem; Geographical distribution; Models, Biological; Performance prediction; priority effects; Sampling; Sampling designs; Skewed distributions; Software; species interactions; biotic interactions; priority effects; species interactions; asymmetric interactions; community ecology

ABSTRACT Understanding biotic interactions is a crucial goal in community ecology and species distribution modelling, and large strides have been made towards improving multivariate computational methods with the aim of quantifying biotic interactions and improving predictions of species occurrence....